Alejandro G. Inarritu's groundbreaking virtual reality installation "CARNE y ARENA (Virtually Present, Physically Invisible)," will be awarded a special Oscar for its visionary and powerful storytelling. The Board of Governors of the Academy of Motion...

Will Smith and Pedro Almodovar jostled over it.
Silicon Valley executive Ted Sarandos defended it.
The Oscar winner Alejandro Inarritu boasted about it.
And the people who run the entertainment business can't stop debating it.
Despite its...

List of winners at Sunday's 88th annual Academy Awards presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Best Picture: "Spotlight."
Best Actor: Leonardo DiCaprio in "The Revenant."
Best Actress: Brie Larson in "Room."
Best Director:...

The U.K. film industry showered Valentine's Day love on "The Revenant" Sunday, awarding the endurance epic five prizes, including best picture and best actor, at the British Academy Film Awards.
Leonardo DiCaprio cemented his Oscar-favorite status by...

An unclear cinematic season got a little foggier on Saturday with Alejandro Inarritu's Directors Guild win for his harrowing frontier epic "The Revenant." With only weeks to go before the Academy Awards on Feb. 28, the race is still as wide open as ever....

Adam McKay, Tom McCarthy and George Miller landed their first nods from the Directors Guild of America in a group of nominees that spanned genres from comedy to science fiction.
Nominations for outstanding achievement in directing went to McKay for the...

The new Leonardo DiCaprio revenge movie "The Revenant" enjoyed much stronger-than-expected business at the box office as the brutal epic expanded nationwide, though it couldn't quite top "Star Wars: The Force Awakens."
"Star Wars" remained a box-office...

Leonardo DiCaprio went to such great lengths as a method actor on "The Revenant" that he devoured a raw slab of bison's liver. Although the props department had constructed a faux liver from jelly, DiCaprio worried that it didn't look right. And so --...

The gorgeously brutal first hour of "The Revenant" marks the peak of director Alejandro G. Inarritu's glittering if not quite golden career. For a while his new movie's really something. Then, as Leonardo DiCaprio crawls across miles and miles of mighty...

So anyway the Governors Ball is first on the party circuit because it’s right upstairs from the Dolby Theatre, where the Oscars take place.
I was late-ish getting there because I was waiting for the winners to finish making their rounds in the...

List of winners at Sunday's 87th annual Academy Awards presented by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
Best picture: "Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)."
Actor: Eddie Redmayne, "The Theory of Everything."
Actress: Julianne...

The long takes of Alejandro Inarritu's "Birdman" won out over the long production of Richard Linklater's "Boyhood" at the Directors Guild Awards Saturday.
Both formally ambitious in very different ways, "Boyhood" and "Birdman" have been neck-in-neck...

"Birdman" was the big winner at the Gotham Awards on Monday, as Alejandro G. Iñarritu's black comedy scored the top prize of best feature and star Michael Keaton took the‎ actor honor.
"I did this film for all of us that in our age are still wandering...

"Birdman" proves that a movie — the grabbiest, most kinetic film ever made about putting on a play — can soar on the wings of its own technical prowess, even as the banality of its ideas threatens to drag it back down to earth.
Much of what you've...